Epidemiologic research on lung damage caused by humidifier disinfectants [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2016 In April 2011 a tertiary hospital located in Seoul, Korea reported several cases of severe respiratory distress of unknown origin in young adults.
Moo-Song Lee, Hwa Jung Kim
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Family-based case-control study of exposure to household humidifier disinfectants and risk of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundIn Korea, several household humidifier disinfectants (HDs) were clinically confirmed to cause HD-associated lung injury (HDLI). Polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) phosphate is the main ingredient of the HDs found to be associated with lung ...
Dirga Kumar Lamichhane +9 more
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Estimating retrospective exposure of household humidifier disinfectants [PDF]
Indoor Air, 2015 We conducted a comprehensive humidifier disinfectant exposure characterization for 374 subjects with lung disease who presumed their disease was related to humidifier disinfectant use (patient group) and for 303 of their family members (family group) for
H K Lim
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Inhalation Lung Injury Associated with Humidifier Disinfectants in Adults [PDF]
J Korean Med Sci, 2016 We recently established a novel disease entity presented as progressive respiratory failure associated with the inhalation of humidifier disinfectants. In April 2011, we encountered a series of peripartum patients with complaints of respiratory distress ...
J. Huh +9 more
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Mitochondria disease due to humidifier disinfectants: diagnostic criteria and its evidences [PDF]
Environmental Analysis, Health and Toxicology, 2020 Humidifier disinfectant damages caused by the misuse of humidifier disinfects, such as polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG), resulted in chemical disasters in South Korea in 2011.
Jong-Han Leem, Hwan-Cheol Kim
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Humidifier Disinfectants Are a Cause of Lung Injury among Adults in South Korea: A Community-Based Case-Control Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 An outbreak of lung injury among South Korean adults was examined in a hospital-based case-control study, and the suspected cause was exposure to humidifier disinfectant (HD).
Ji-Hyuk Park +12 more
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A 2-day cardiopulmonary exercise test in chronic fatigue syndrome patients who were exposed to humidifier disinfectants [PDF]
Environmental Analysis, Health and Toxicology, 2022 Some survivors of humidifier disinfectants (HDs) complain of chronic, inexplicable fatigue, and post-exertional malaise (PEM). Two-day cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPETs) performed 24 hours apart (2-day CPET protocol) are increasingly employed to ...
Jong-Han Leem +2 more
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Evidence integration on health damage for humidifier disinfectant exposure and legal presumption of causation [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES Inhalation exposure to humidifier disinfectants has resulted to various types of health damages in Korea. To determine the epidemiological correlation necessary for presuming the legal causation, we aimed to develop a method to synthesize the ...
Mina Ha +10 more
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Toxicological evidence integration to confirm the biological plausibility of the association between humidifier disinfectant exposure and respiratory diseases using the AEP-AOP framework [PDF]
Epidemiology and HealthOBJECTIVES Exposure to humidifier disinfectants has been linked to respiratory diseases, including interstitial lung disease, asthma, and pneumonia. Consequently, numerous toxicological studies have explored respiratory damage as both a necessary and ...
Ha Ryong Kim +10 more
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Assessment of agonistic and antagonistic properties of humidifier disinfectants to the estrogenic and androgenic receptors by transactivation assay [PDF]
Toxicological Research, 2021 Handule Lee +2 more
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